The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-05-12
Duchess of Edinburgh is god mother,

,arelul SJuuenI OI lne sOclul Sl'e VI
modern history. The second volume
of his "Ilistory of French Civiliz-
,tiOn," deals with the status of the /
clergy, the nobility, the army, and !
the inferior classes; also the prlvi-
|eges, the abuses, and the state of
education of the seventeenth and
centuries, when absolute
was dominant. Incident
ally he touches on an interesting
"Why did the French Revo-
luton overthrow everything, good rs
well as bad, and attempt to recon-
struct new order of society modell-
ed after NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Sparta
and Rome!'' Because the lower
classes were wholly without instruc-
tion, and the upper strata had only
q confused and mongrel knowledge
of classical literature.
Judge how the school-master was
abroad. No one gave thought to
primary education before the revolu-
ton. Royalty left all that to the
clergy, the municipalities, and the
religious orders. 1t only wanted
subjects to pay taxes and men to
fight battles. In the west of France;
illiteracy was proverbial, and it is
the dark spot still on the instruction
map of the nation. In Burgundy,
there were not more than nineteen
per cent of persons, who could sign
the register on being married. In
Auvergue, there was only one school
for score of villages. AS for
teachers, these practically did not
exist, rs there were no Normal
Schools to train them. The first
conner who wished to gain an honest
penny was free to present himself
for the office of school-mastcr; he
had only to submit to Summary
examination-to recite and write the
Lords prayer-before an official as
ignorant as the candidate. Provided
with permit to teach, the diplonled
had next to 60 inquest of pupils,
and situation. He was virtually a
tramp. In Normandy there was
actually fair for the hire of school
masters, as there was for domestic
servants.
The pay of the school-master be-
fore the revolution, was merely
nominal, and even that pittance had
to be accepted in kind. The money
annual salary Of teacher, was
twenty to twenty-five sons-about
one tarthing weelily-''per head, "
of pupils. This compelled the
teacher to become positively II
pluralst; thus he was by turn,
beadlc, grave-digger, bell-ringer,
public pen-man, barber and tailor.
And further he was engaged by the
year, like farm servant. For
school, l-house, he had but his own
one-room hovcl where he lived, slept,
cooked, and cultivated trees OF
knowledge. No wonder middle and
lower class society ran wild, when in
1889, sovereign power fell into theil
hands as from the skies.
Another installment of the "Me.
moirs" of the Comte de FallOuX has
appeared, treating of the events OF
the wears lS34-3j. The comte was
a royalist, but not the less joined the
ministry of Louis Napoleon. lie
was introduced to Wellington. He
states, the Iron Duke, presented 9
strange aspect; had an enormou:
head, on small and slender body
his nose was extra Bourbonian, an(
his chin was very prominent. III,
was at the same time full of natura
dignity, with most pleasing expires
sion, and gave the intelligent for
eigner shake of the hand, expires
sive at once of Loyalty, nobility
and simplicity of character. In tn
entrance hall of the Apsley House
was beautiful bust of Napoleon.
Relative to O'Connell, the CONT
viewed him not only as the repre-
sentative, but the incarnation O
lreland-impetuous, vehement O
varying humor; neglectful in dress
wig badly made and worse worn
He was irregular and roughisb, bu
never losing for moment, hi
character Of right good fellow
O'Connell never separated actio
from speech, and was always tn
"great agitator." Side by side wa
his patriarchal life; IN his home, h
was regarded with the most pre-
found respect and attention. Iii
London house, was little Irelant
and his stock subjects of convers,
: ton, were, his country and til
church.
The WagnerphObists seem NOR
, than ever determined, that no opel
, house subsidized by the state, sha
be given to bring out any of Wae
ner's compositions; if private e,
tablishment affords the require
, hospitality, it must take chance fc
| squalls. The brutal, and to all ar
J pearance inapt, expulsion from A
SAGE, of M. Antoine, deputy at tn
Reichstag for district in Alsace
and leader of French sympathisel
of the amputated province, can onl
intensity the patriotic set again'
/ the German composer, not becaus
, he is an 1901 German, but for h
, unseemingly' rabid attacks at ths
/ epoch, on the Gauls. Ne sutr
ultra orepidam. Rochforte, who